My main PC is back!! Wheee!!!

Remember, it died on 2025-12-29. I'd say it was part of the "ASRock motherboards killing Ryzen 9800X3D CPUs" conspiracy, although I'm not discounting the possibility that some of the earlier CPUs had manufacturing issues or something. There are probably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these CPUs out there, and only hundreds are reported to have failed, so I'd say I just drew one of the short straws.

One interesting thing about my case is that I'm a reliability nut. I never enabled PBO (Precision Boost Overclock). I never even enabled the normal boost function, so the peak frequency it ever saw was 4.7GHz (base frequency of 9800X3D). I even underclocked the RAM to 5200MT/s to lower the VSOC voltage. And it lasted 11 months or so.

Regardless of who's at fault (AMD or ASRock), it left a bad taste in my mouth, so I bought a new motherboard. Not too many choices out there supporting ECC memory, so ended up with an ASUS TUF GAMING B850M ...